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PAGE THREE
Daily Trojan Opens Year With Partnership
Cai i-Formi<3i
DAILY
TROJAN
PAGE FOUR
Traynham Out of Lineup For Four Weeks
VOL. Lll
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1960
No. 3
ASSC Executive Cabinet Vetoes
Steigerwalt's Election Regulations
Vote Will Delay Freshman Polls
Top Showmen Will Perform At Troy Night
Another first for USC will take place tomorrow night at 8 on the Bovard Auditorium stage w hen KM PC disc jockey Jerry Dexter, introduces personalities such as the Hi-Los. Si Zentner and his band and the comedy team of Paul Condylis and Bob Grant.
‘Troy night is the first show of this kind to be presented by the university to provide top professional entertainment f o r USC’s ever-growing population in campus residences," said Bob J a n i. coordinator of special events.
.Tani felt there was a possi- j b’lity of three more shows of j this kind to be held during the year.
Plans Four
"Actually we plan to provide four top-flight professional programs a year. Two in the fall and two in the spring,” he said.
The television shows on which the Hi-Los have appeared include Steve Allen. Red Skelton. Patti Page, Andy Williams, Masquerade Party and Rosemary Clooney.
Their nightclub engagements have included such places as the Crescendo in Los Angeles. Riverside Hotel in Reno, Black Orchid in Chicago and Casino Royale in Washington, D C.
They have sung songs for such motion pictures as ‘The Girl Most Likely,” “Noah” and “Heat Wave.”
New Band
Zentner, who has played with such bands as Les Brown. Harry James and Jimmy Dorsey, established his own musical group in 1958. Since then, the group has made its mark on the enter-tamment world.
Zentner’s hit recordings include t h e instrumentals “A Thinking Man's Band” and “‘Suddenly It's Swing.”
Singing stars such as Dinah Shore. Tony Martin, Helen Forrest. Dick Havmes. Kay Starr. Gordon MacRae. Debbie Reynolds. Ava Gardner. Bing Croc-bv and Frank Sinatra have been backed by Zentner’s trombone.
Radio Team
Condylis and Grant do their comedy routines over radio station KNX. They won this year’s Los Angeles Times award for the best show on radio. ,
The S2 tickets are on sale now and may be purchased at the University Ticket Office^ se.-ond floor SU, or at the box-office.
All profits from this production will be piaced in the ASSC general fund. __________________
BLENDING VOICE5—Making beauliful music tcgeiher are the famous Hi-Lcs who have appeared in many cf the tcp television and night spots in the country. They will sing for Trojans tomorrow in Bovard at 8 p.m. in Troy Night.
German Rectors Tell
Of Free' Universities
Three German university rectors have been telling USC administrât ors a real freedom story this week.
Prof. Eduard Neumann, rector of the Free University of Berlin and one of three guests of USC for the past two days, told USC officials how his campus had grown in 11 years from nothing to an institution with 12.500 students and 80 buildings—all because of the desire to think and speak freely.
The Free University of Berlin was founded as a result of spontaneous public demonstrations by 2000 students of the old University of Berlin in the Communist sector of the city.
Demand Education
Learning that their classes would be infiltrated by Red po litical ideas, the students came over to West Berlin and demanded a college education.
Their initiative and enthusiasm attracted professors who also deserted East Berlin, Dr. Neumann sa;d.
Conseauentlv, the Free Uni-vertisv actually grew out of itself. having started with no buildings, faculty, organization or subsidy.
Students from the Communist sector of Berlin are still permitted to attend the Free Uni-versiy of Berlin, he said. “However. most of them are prohibited from returning to their homes because* the Reds sa»'
they have been ‘ideologically af lected’ by western ideas.
"Of course, the Communists ! permit engineers and scientists to return to East Berlin because they feel they can use ] them regardless of their politi-i cal ideas.” the professor pointed out.
The Free University of Berlin has many foreign students with the majority of them coming from the United States, Dr. Neumann said.
The Ford Foundation has also helped build campus structures.
Cites Functions
One of the principle functions and responsibilities of a university is to teach objectivity and restraint and to encourage its | students and faculty to live I calmly and wihout hysteria in j one of the world's potentially | most explosive areas, the rector said.
Dr. Neumann visited USC after attending a general conference of the International Asso-I ciation of Universiies in Mexico City .
He and his fellow educators j were guests of the university un-! der the foreign leader program which USC directs in Los Ange-| les for the U. S. Department of State through the American ; Council on Education.
(Continued on Page 2)
Professors Gather Support For Presidential Candidates
By PENNY LERXOUX City Editor
Political organizations seem to pop up like the proverbial mushroom as soon as candidates show iheir noses in the race to the White House.
USC is one place where this is no exception.
First, Dr. Carl Q. Christol. professor of international law and chaiiTnan of the USC political science department, organized the Southern California Scholars for Nixon and Lodge in coordination with the president of Claremont Men's College.
Now the Democratic scholars are organizing under the leadership ot Dr. Russell L. Caldwell. USC associate professor of general studies and history—a move which was not prompted by the Republican scholar»’ recent organization. says Dr. Caldwell.
“We are not organizing the group to compete with Nixon and his supporters. Kennr'dy cioesn’t have to prove he is a scholar, lies been lhinc in an atmosphere of scholarship all his life, the professor firmly states.
Name of the new organization, which Dr. Caldwell is coordinating with Dr. Page Smith of UCLA, is “Academics for Kennedy.”
The USC professor believes the reasons given by Dr. Christol and his group for support of Nixon and Lodge are not very-strong ones.
The Republican organization stated that it was supporting the Nixon-Lodge ticket because of the duos “experience in international affairs.”
It also felt that the record of the Republican candidates was one of “inspiring and heartening firmness in dealing with the threat of Russian Communism” and that “they are at home intellectually in an academic environment and will be attentive to the view of scholars.”
It further believed that it could have “confidence in these candidates because of what they have done, because of what they are and because of the purposeful leadership we know they will provide.”
Dr. Caldwell feels that Kennedy has demonstrated “firm-
ness in dealing with the threat of Russian Communism” but that the Eisenhower-Nixon administration has only succeeded in furthering it.
“Nixon is not trying to pull away from the present administration nor correct any of its errors. He himself said that he was fully responsible for any action taken by the current administration.” the professor says.
He adds that Nixon is trying to stand on too many bases at that same time in professing himself completely and not completely behind the Eisenhower record.
“The world position of the U.S. as established by the Eisenhower-Nixon administration and its State Department is extremely. weak in comparison to what it yvas eight years ago. The Republicans must accept full responsibility for this decline,” he says.
Dr. Caldwell points out that his statement is supported byr a ]6ss of support in Latin Aiherica, an increase of Communist infili-tration in Asia and the recent insults of Paris and Tokyo.
Telecom Staff Enlarges Size As Duo Joins
New USC appointments will see Dr. Don C. Smith, associate professor and Dr. John M. Kitt-ross, assistant professor instated in the department of telecommunications.
Dr. Smith was assistant professor and associate professor of radio and TV at the University of Alabama from 1949 to the present.
He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Omicron Delta Kappa and Alpha Epsilon Rho honors | societies.
He served in the Armed Forces Radio Network, and in Germany, France and England during World War II.
Dr. Kittross is editor of the' Journal of Broadcasting, a publi-| cation of the Association for Professional Broadcasting Education.
He served two years as an in-; structor in the Army Psyehologi- I ! cal Warfare School at Fort 1 Bragg, N. C.
I________________________________
Med Schools Expect Losses
Some American medical schools matriculate more stu- j dents than are expected to con- | tinue in school, for a relatively | high percentage fail scholastic- | ally, usually during the first ; year.
USC medical officials report j that students are selected with the expectation that everyone j ] will graduate. Despite all efforts :
, to promote successful student ;
| effort, two persons are dropped I from school for academic rea-|sons every year.
The university is making an attempt to discover factors associated with student failure by : review of the records of all students who failed during the period of 16 years from 1940-1955.
In that interval, 58 or approximately 5 per cent of the 1116 students admitted to USC failed. There were 4 failures among ' 48 women students.
Causes of the failures are attributed to the occurrence of World War II, which created some unusual cirmumstances such as the accelerated curriculum, and marital, family and economic problems.
However, the ratios of graduates from the California schools | who failed State Board exami-i nations show that USC gradu-I ates perform as well as do any I from the California schools.
BBC Gives Rare Books
Rare books on television and radio broadcasting were present- j ed today to the USC Doheny Li- j brary by Dr. Kenneth Harwood., j head of the university’s depart- I ment of telecommunications.
Dr. Harwood presented the j books on behalf of R. A. Colli-son, librarian of the British, Broadcastirfg Corporation.
Among the books were two j five-language dictionaries of ra-j dio that were published in 1924, a bibliography of British broa 1 ! casting, a special chronology and index of important events1 in the history of the British Broadcasting Corporation and a volume of major lectures on communication in the modern world. The last includes a discussion by Edward R. Murrow of television in British and American politics.
Recent talks in London between Collison and Dr. Harwood produced plans for an international association of research libraries that specialize in radio and television.
One purpose of the association would be to exchange rare documents, of which several copies are held in some libraries, while other libraries have none.
GRADUATES MAY APPLY FOR MARSHALL AWARDS
Graduate students at USC have a better chance than ever before to win one of the coveted Marshall Scholarships, the major award open to both men and women for study at any British University.
As a result of the success of the Marshall Scholarships, the British Government has doubled the number of awards for the United States from 12 to 24.
Of these, at least four are reserved this year for students from the 13 Western states, and there is an excellent possibility of extra floating scholarships.
Six students from the West are taking up their 1960 Marshall Scholarships this fall, and four of the winners are from Southern California.
The Marshall Scholarships were set up by Britian after World War II as a gesture of thanks by the British people for Marshall Plan aid to Britian. They are awarded to graduate students of United States universities to enable them to study for a minimum of two years at the British university of their choice.
Troys Curies Travel For Study in Sweden
USC’s version of the Curies will spend this year teaching and studying at the Karolinska Institute, in Stockholm, Sweden.
Dr. Guiseppe Bertani, USC associate professor of medical microbiology, and his wife, Dr. Elizabeth Bertani, have been invited to spend the year teaching and doing research into the
Biology Head Goes to Sea
Dr. John L. Mohr, biology department head, has recently left USC for Pearl Harbor on a marine scientific expedition.
The purpose of his trip is to collect samplings of Continuous Pl,anktoni to replenish the USC supply of tropical marine animals.
The expedition is also designed to determine whether temperature variations create any physical differences between specimens found in local California waters and those found in Hawraii.
It is hoped that the research will be helpful in solving the recent and most serious plague of harmful predators which await the unsuspecting swimmer.
Dr. Mohr returned recently from a six-week tour of Northern Europe, where he attended the International Geographical Congress in Stockholm, Sweden.
The USC scientists has also paid visits to the National Institute of Oceanography in London; the Marine Biology Association Laboratory in Plymoth. England; and the Institute for Marine Research, Kiel, Germany.
In the gathering of his arctic and antarctic data on marine and whale life. Dr. Mohr continued his travels to Oslo. Norway. to conduct studies at the Institute for Whale Research.
genetics of bacteria and bac-teria-attacking virus by the Swedish university.
“Because there are fundamental similarities between the human and bacteria genetic structure, work with bacteria has received a tremendous impetus all over the world,” Dr. Bertani said.
While her husband initiates courses, counsels graduate students and directs genetic bacterial experiments, Mrs. Bertani will do research work in her field of biochemistry.
Mrs. Bertani is an associate of her husband at USC. For the past five years they have collaborated in the field of genetics of bacteria and their parasites.
Before coming to USC, the Bertanis were at Caltec, where he was a senior research fellow in biology, and she achieved the distinction of being the first woman to be awarded a PhD in biology.
Dr. Bertani stressed that bacteria genetics represents a model which has been consistently followed by people interested in human cell genetics and virus infection.
A native of Como, Italy, the microbiologist attended the University of Milan, majoring in zoology. He became a research fellow for the Italian National Research Council in 1945-46 and the Carnegie Institute of Washington in 1948-49.
Dr. Bertani also received the Perotti-Razzini award of the University of Milan in 1945.
Bv BARBARA EPSTEIN Daily Trojan Feature Editor
The ASSC Executive Cabinet handed President Bill Steigerwalt his first political defeat of the year last night when it slapped down an Election Code passed by the ASSC Senate last Wednesday night.
The defeat means a hold-up of the freshman class ; elections until an Election Code , '
I is drawn up.
The election was tentatively. i scheduled for early in October.
Petitions for class officers had gone out yesterday.
The bill would have establish-! ed a voluntary registration sys-1 I tem for all voters in ASSC elec-1 tions.
Based on similar registration _ , . .
. In a world where people clam-
; procedures in municipal, state I . .. , . » j
1 and national elections it would or or iei? ° .1S"
have denied voting privileges to I f"«*’ a t
anvone not registering. found Phas* of ™ans be^~
* . 14, . , nings that has been greatly
Steigerwalt s declaring that the Qverlooked b modem Ume
measure alone would have insur-
ed “fair and legal" elections at 1 Appealing to the US. phar-the university, could not save it. I maceutical industry. Dr. Orville _ . _ , . H. Miller, USC professor
Senior Class — —
Ancient Herbs Prove Useful To Scientists
With Senior Class President Ken Unmacht absent, the Cabinet defeated the bill 5-2. Voting for the measure were Steiger-vvalt and ASSC Secretary’ Mardi Wulfestei
H. Miller, USC professor of pharmacy, suggested that valuable information can be gained j from the knowledge of primitive herbal medicine.
Dr. Miller urged the collection
Voting against the bill were an(i cataloguing of all herbal-AMS President Mike Guhin. medical folklore for posterity Junior Class President Jim Har- before the doubt ng numbers mon, ASSC Vice President Sha- undergoing modern education ron Kelly, Sophomore Class eliminate a trace of this part of President Steve Perlof and AWS our past.
President Carolyn White.
Chief speaker against : measure was Harmon who contended that the bill “favors laughed | various cliques” and would re-1 said, j suit in greater voter apathy on j campus.
Not all tales of medical folk-the lore involving the use of remedies made from herbs should be at by scientists, he
“Evaluation of incidences in the past ypars has confirmed the
Steigerwalt, while admitting success of primitive medical
that the bill was “discrimina- treatments,” the professor point-
tory” declared that it would ed out.
keep “pseudo officers” out of The student of herbal medi-
student government. cine need not travel to distant
"Three-fourth of all campaigns lands to study because there are on this campus are illegal." numerous sources for research Steigerwalt said. “Stuffing of right here. For example, over the ballot box has gone on in ! 1000 medicinal plants were used nearly every election.” 1 at one time by the Navajos in
He volunteered to go before , the Southwest desert, a notary public to make a state- j Hoping for further investiga-mcnt revealing what illégalités tion by science into the field of he himself had witnessed. ! herbal medicine. Dr. Miller felt
Harmon feared that "cliques” that there were good reasons to would “legally” control student believe that much of value still body elections under the pro- awaits “discovery.” posed Elections Code. They could j He proposed that medical in-pressure their members into vestigating teams go into reregistering. while the average ! gions where plant materials are voter probably would not regis- still used as a source of medi-ter. he said. cine for a thorough on-the-spot
Steigerwalt. pointing out that evaluation of medical folklore the proposed Elections Code had | and herbal remedies — the for-been modelled after municipal. J gotten phase of the beginnings (Continued on Page 2) *of modern medicine.
Exchange Student-Traveler Tells of Brazilian Program
Cinema Gets More Films
Seven films have recently been donated to the library of classic films by Hollywood studios, announced cinema instructor David Raskin.
UPA cartoons “Unicorn in the Garden,” “Madeline.” “Giddyap” and “Gerald McBoing,” Boing and the full-length features “Apache,” “Separate Tables” and “A1 Capone" were added to the library.
Raskin has been obtaining famous and outstanding films noted for their musical scores and pictorial value for the USC cinema archives.
Church Has New Leader
The University Methodist Church announced yesterday the appointment of Reverend Travis Kendall as its new minister.
In his first pastoral position, the Rev. Mr. Kendall is planning a program to attract both students and graduates of the university. He hopes to build his congregation into a group sup ported by the laity.
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WELCOME hOME USC student David Sargeant should be able to find Brazil on the map after he spent a year there as an exchange student. Sargeant has just returned from the South American country, where he and 13 other college students attended university classes, lectured and spent time in the homes of Brazilian families.
J By ARLINE KAPLAN
Seasoned traveler David Sargeant has recently returned to USC from a year’s stay in Brazil.
As a participant in a unique exchange program, Sargeant and 13 other college students representing various areas of the j U.S.. received a semester of in-I tensive education at the Uiriver-I sity of Bahia.
The program, a cooperative ef-' fort, was initiated by the Uni-I versity of New York and the University of Bahia. The Ameri-| can university pays the round-trip plane fare, while the Brazilian university provides tuition ! and housing.
I Students are eligible to apply ; for the program during their ! sophomore year. They must i demonstrate a willingness to j learn and the ability to adapt to diverse environments.
In June, Sargeant and the i other students met in Washington. DC. Here they received a briefing by State Department officials on customs, etiquette and other pertinent iiTfomia-tion.
When they arrived in Bahia the students immediately began a concentrated, six-week course ; in Portuguese. After completion ' of the course, they enrolled in | a special cultural program which included geology, history. Portuguese and Brazilian literature and sociology, all taught in Portuguese.
The American students were (Continued or* Page £)

PAGE THREE
Daily Trojan Opens Year With Partnership
Cai i-Formi<3i
DAILY
TROJAN
PAGE FOUR
Traynham Out of Lineup For Four Weeks
VOL. Lll
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1960
No. 3
ASSC Executive Cabinet Vetoes
Steigerwalt's Election Regulations
Vote Will Delay Freshman Polls
Top Showmen Will Perform At Troy Night
Another first for USC will take place tomorrow night at 8 on the Bovard Auditorium stage w hen KM PC disc jockey Jerry Dexter, introduces personalities such as the Hi-Los. Si Zentner and his band and the comedy team of Paul Condylis and Bob Grant.
‘Troy night is the first show of this kind to be presented by the university to provide top professional entertainment f o r USC’s ever-growing population in campus residences," said Bob J a n i. coordinator of special events.
.Tani felt there was a possi- j b’lity of three more shows of j this kind to be held during the year.
Plans Four
"Actually we plan to provide four top-flight professional programs a year. Two in the fall and two in the spring,” he said.
The television shows on which the Hi-Los have appeared include Steve Allen. Red Skelton. Patti Page, Andy Williams, Masquerade Party and Rosemary Clooney.
Their nightclub engagements have included such places as the Crescendo in Los Angeles. Riverside Hotel in Reno, Black Orchid in Chicago and Casino Royale in Washington, D C.
They have sung songs for such motion pictures as ‘The Girl Most Likely,” “Noah” and “Heat Wave.”
New Band
Zentner, who has played with such bands as Les Brown. Harry James and Jimmy Dorsey, established his own musical group in 1958. Since then, the group has made its mark on the enter-tamment world.
Zentner’s hit recordings include t h e instrumentals “A Thinking Man's Band” and “‘Suddenly It's Swing.”
Singing stars such as Dinah Shore. Tony Martin, Helen Forrest. Dick Havmes. Kay Starr. Gordon MacRae. Debbie Reynolds. Ava Gardner. Bing Croc-bv and Frank Sinatra have been backed by Zentner’s trombone.
Radio Team
Condylis and Grant do their comedy routines over radio station KNX. They won this year’s Los Angeles Times award for the best show on radio. ,
The S2 tickets are on sale now and may be purchased at the University Ticket Office^ se.-ond floor SU, or at the box-office.
All profits from this production will be piaced in the ASSC general fund. __________________
BLENDING VOICE5—Making beauliful music tcgeiher are the famous Hi-Lcs who have appeared in many cf the tcp television and night spots in the country. They will sing for Trojans tomorrow in Bovard at 8 p.m. in Troy Night.
German Rectors Tell
Of Free' Universities
Three German university rectors have been telling USC administrât ors a real freedom story this week.
Prof. Eduard Neumann, rector of the Free University of Berlin and one of three guests of USC for the past two days, told USC officials how his campus had grown in 11 years from nothing to an institution with 12.500 students and 80 buildings—all because of the desire to think and speak freely.
The Free University of Berlin was founded as a result of spontaneous public demonstrations by 2000 students of the old University of Berlin in the Communist sector of the city.
Demand Education
Learning that their classes would be infiltrated by Red po litical ideas, the students came over to West Berlin and demanded a college education.
Their initiative and enthusiasm attracted professors who also deserted East Berlin, Dr. Neumann sa;d.
Conseauentlv, the Free Uni-vertisv actually grew out of itself. having started with no buildings, faculty, organization or subsidy.
Students from the Communist sector of Berlin are still permitted to attend the Free Uni-versiy of Berlin, he said. “However. most of them are prohibited from returning to their homes because* the Reds sa»'
they have been ‘ideologically af lected’ by western ideas.
"Of course, the Communists ! permit engineers and scientists to return to East Berlin because they feel they can use ] them regardless of their politi-i cal ideas.” the professor pointed out.
The Free University of Berlin has many foreign students with the majority of them coming from the United States, Dr. Neumann said.
The Ford Foundation has also helped build campus structures.
Cites Functions
One of the principle functions and responsibilities of a university is to teach objectivity and restraint and to encourage its | students and faculty to live I calmly and wihout hysteria in j one of the world's potentially | most explosive areas, the rector said.
Dr. Neumann visited USC after attending a general conference of the International Asso-I ciation of Universiies in Mexico City .
He and his fellow educators j were guests of the university un-! der the foreign leader program which USC directs in Los Ange-| les for the U. S. Department of State through the American ; Council on Education.
(Continued on Page 2)
Professors Gather Support For Presidential Candidates
By PENNY LERXOUX City Editor
Political organizations seem to pop up like the proverbial mushroom as soon as candidates show iheir noses in the race to the White House.
USC is one place where this is no exception.
First, Dr. Carl Q. Christol. professor of international law and chaiiTnan of the USC political science department, organized the Southern California Scholars for Nixon and Lodge in coordination with the president of Claremont Men's College.
Now the Democratic scholars are organizing under the leadership ot Dr. Russell L. Caldwell. USC associate professor of general studies and history—a move which was not prompted by the Republican scholar»’ recent organization. says Dr. Caldwell.
“We are not organizing the group to compete with Nixon and his supporters. Kennr'dy cioesn’t have to prove he is a scholar, lies been lhinc in an atmosphere of scholarship all his life, the professor firmly states.
Name of the new organization, which Dr. Caldwell is coordinating with Dr. Page Smith of UCLA, is “Academics for Kennedy.”
The USC professor believes the reasons given by Dr. Christol and his group for support of Nixon and Lodge are not very-strong ones.
The Republican organization stated that it was supporting the Nixon-Lodge ticket because of the duos “experience in international affairs.”
It also felt that the record of the Republican candidates was one of “inspiring and heartening firmness in dealing with the threat of Russian Communism” and that “they are at home intellectually in an academic environment and will be attentive to the view of scholars.”
It further believed that it could have “confidence in these candidates because of what they have done, because of what they are and because of the purposeful leadership we know they will provide.”
Dr. Caldwell feels that Kennedy has demonstrated “firm-
ness in dealing with the threat of Russian Communism” but that the Eisenhower-Nixon administration has only succeeded in furthering it.
“Nixon is not trying to pull away from the present administration nor correct any of its errors. He himself said that he was fully responsible for any action taken by the current administration.” the professor says.
He adds that Nixon is trying to stand on too many bases at that same time in professing himself completely and not completely behind the Eisenhower record.
“The world position of the U.S. as established by the Eisenhower-Nixon administration and its State Department is extremely. weak in comparison to what it yvas eight years ago. The Republicans must accept full responsibility for this decline,” he says.
Dr. Caldwell points out that his statement is supported byr a ]6ss of support in Latin Aiherica, an increase of Communist infili-tration in Asia and the recent insults of Paris and Tokyo.
Telecom Staff Enlarges Size As Duo Joins
New USC appointments will see Dr. Don C. Smith, associate professor and Dr. John M. Kitt-ross, assistant professor instated in the department of telecommunications.
Dr. Smith was assistant professor and associate professor of radio and TV at the University of Alabama from 1949 to the present.
He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Omicron Delta Kappa and Alpha Epsilon Rho honors | societies.
He served in the Armed Forces Radio Network, and in Germany, France and England during World War II.
Dr. Kittross is editor of the' Journal of Broadcasting, a publi-| cation of the Association for Professional Broadcasting Education.
He served two years as an in-; structor in the Army Psyehologi- I ! cal Warfare School at Fort 1 Bragg, N. C.
I________________________________
Med Schools Expect Losses
Some American medical schools matriculate more stu- j dents than are expected to con- | tinue in school, for a relatively | high percentage fail scholastic- | ally, usually during the first ; year.
USC medical officials report j that students are selected with the expectation that everyone j ] will graduate. Despite all efforts :
, to promote successful student ;
| effort, two persons are dropped I from school for academic rea-|sons every year.
The university is making an attempt to discover factors associated with student failure by : review of the records of all students who failed during the period of 16 years from 1940-1955.
In that interval, 58 or approximately 5 per cent of the 1116 students admitted to USC failed. There were 4 failures among ' 48 women students.
Causes of the failures are attributed to the occurrence of World War II, which created some unusual cirmumstances such as the accelerated curriculum, and marital, family and economic problems.
However, the ratios of graduates from the California schools | who failed State Board exami-i nations show that USC gradu-I ates perform as well as do any I from the California schools.
BBC Gives Rare Books
Rare books on television and radio broadcasting were present- j ed today to the USC Doheny Li- j brary by Dr. Kenneth Harwood., j head of the university’s depart- I ment of telecommunications.
Dr. Harwood presented the j books on behalf of R. A. Colli-son, librarian of the British, Broadcastirfg Corporation.
Among the books were two j five-language dictionaries of ra-j dio that were published in 1924, a bibliography of British broa 1 ! casting, a special chronology and index of important events1 in the history of the British Broadcasting Corporation and a volume of major lectures on communication in the modern world. The last includes a discussion by Edward R. Murrow of television in British and American politics.
Recent talks in London between Collison and Dr. Harwood produced plans for an international association of research libraries that specialize in radio and television.
One purpose of the association would be to exchange rare documents, of which several copies are held in some libraries, while other libraries have none.
GRADUATES MAY APPLY FOR MARSHALL AWARDS
Graduate students at USC have a better chance than ever before to win one of the coveted Marshall Scholarships, the major award open to both men and women for study at any British University.
As a result of the success of the Marshall Scholarships, the British Government has doubled the number of awards for the United States from 12 to 24.
Of these, at least four are reserved this year for students from the 13 Western states, and there is an excellent possibility of extra floating scholarships.
Six students from the West are taking up their 1960 Marshall Scholarships this fall, and four of the winners are from Southern California.
The Marshall Scholarships were set up by Britian after World War II as a gesture of thanks by the British people for Marshall Plan aid to Britian. They are awarded to graduate students of United States universities to enable them to study for a minimum of two years at the British university of their choice.
Troys Curies Travel For Study in Sweden
USC’s version of the Curies will spend this year teaching and studying at the Karolinska Institute, in Stockholm, Sweden.
Dr. Guiseppe Bertani, USC associate professor of medical microbiology, and his wife, Dr. Elizabeth Bertani, have been invited to spend the year teaching and doing research into the
Biology Head Goes to Sea
Dr. John L. Mohr, biology department head, has recently left USC for Pearl Harbor on a marine scientific expedition.
The purpose of his trip is to collect samplings of Continuous Pl,anktoni to replenish the USC supply of tropical marine animals.
The expedition is also designed to determine whether temperature variations create any physical differences between specimens found in local California waters and those found in Hawraii.
It is hoped that the research will be helpful in solving the recent and most serious plague of harmful predators which await the unsuspecting swimmer.
Dr. Mohr returned recently from a six-week tour of Northern Europe, where he attended the International Geographical Congress in Stockholm, Sweden.
The USC scientists has also paid visits to the National Institute of Oceanography in London; the Marine Biology Association Laboratory in Plymoth. England; and the Institute for Marine Research, Kiel, Germany.
In the gathering of his arctic and antarctic data on marine and whale life. Dr. Mohr continued his travels to Oslo. Norway. to conduct studies at the Institute for Whale Research.
genetics of bacteria and bac-teria-attacking virus by the Swedish university.
“Because there are fundamental similarities between the human and bacteria genetic structure, work with bacteria has received a tremendous impetus all over the world,” Dr. Bertani said.
While her husband initiates courses, counsels graduate students and directs genetic bacterial experiments, Mrs. Bertani will do research work in her field of biochemistry.
Mrs. Bertani is an associate of her husband at USC. For the past five years they have collaborated in the field of genetics of bacteria and their parasites.
Before coming to USC, the Bertanis were at Caltec, where he was a senior research fellow in biology, and she achieved the distinction of being the first woman to be awarded a PhD in biology.
Dr. Bertani stressed that bacteria genetics represents a model which has been consistently followed by people interested in human cell genetics and virus infection.
A native of Como, Italy, the microbiologist attended the University of Milan, majoring in zoology. He became a research fellow for the Italian National Research Council in 1945-46 and the Carnegie Institute of Washington in 1948-49.
Dr. Bertani also received the Perotti-Razzini award of the University of Milan in 1945.
Bv BARBARA EPSTEIN Daily Trojan Feature Editor
The ASSC Executive Cabinet handed President Bill Steigerwalt his first political defeat of the year last night when it slapped down an Election Code passed by the ASSC Senate last Wednesday night.
The defeat means a hold-up of the freshman class ; elections until an Election Code , '
I is drawn up.
The election was tentatively. i scheduled for early in October.
Petitions for class officers had gone out yesterday.
The bill would have establish-! ed a voluntary registration sys-1 I tem for all voters in ASSC elec-1 tions.
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Ancient Herbs Prove Useful To Scientists
With Senior Class President Ken Unmacht absent, the Cabinet defeated the bill 5-2. Voting for the measure were Steiger-vvalt and ASSC Secretary’ Mardi Wulfestei
H. Miller, USC professor of pharmacy, suggested that valuable information can be gained j from the knowledge of primitive herbal medicine.
Dr. Miller urged the collection
Voting against the bill were an(i cataloguing of all herbal-AMS President Mike Guhin. medical folklore for posterity Junior Class President Jim Har- before the doubt ng numbers mon, ASSC Vice President Sha- undergoing modern education ron Kelly, Sophomore Class eliminate a trace of this part of President Steve Perlof and AWS our past.
President Carolyn White.
Chief speaker against : measure was Harmon who contended that the bill “favors laughed | various cliques” and would re-1 said, j suit in greater voter apathy on j campus.
Not all tales of medical folk-the lore involving the use of remedies made from herbs should be at by scientists, he
“Evaluation of incidences in the past ypars has confirmed the
Steigerwalt, while admitting success of primitive medical
that the bill was “discrimina- treatments,” the professor point-
tory” declared that it would ed out.
keep “pseudo officers” out of The student of herbal medi-
student government. cine need not travel to distant
"Three-fourth of all campaigns lands to study because there are on this campus are illegal." numerous sources for research Steigerwalt said. “Stuffing of right here. For example, over the ballot box has gone on in ! 1000 medicinal plants were used nearly every election.” 1 at one time by the Navajos in
He volunteered to go before , the Southwest desert, a notary public to make a state- j Hoping for further investiga-mcnt revealing what illégalités tion by science into the field of he himself had witnessed. ! herbal medicine. Dr. Miller felt
Harmon feared that "cliques” that there were good reasons to would “legally” control student believe that much of value still body elections under the pro- awaits “discovery.” posed Elections Code. They could j He proposed that medical in-pressure their members into vestigating teams go into reregistering. while the average ! gions where plant materials are voter probably would not regis- still used as a source of medi-ter. he said. cine for a thorough on-the-spot
Steigerwalt. pointing out that evaluation of medical folklore the proposed Elections Code had | and herbal remedies — the for-been modelled after municipal. J gotten phase of the beginnings (Continued on Page 2) *of modern medicine.
Exchange Student-Traveler Tells of Brazilian Program
Cinema Gets More Films
Seven films have recently been donated to the library of classic films by Hollywood studios, announced cinema instructor David Raskin.
UPA cartoons “Unicorn in the Garden,” “Madeline.” “Giddyap” and “Gerald McBoing,” Boing and the full-length features “Apache,” “Separate Tables” and “A1 Capone" were added to the library.
Raskin has been obtaining famous and outstanding films noted for their musical scores and pictorial value for the USC cinema archives.
Church Has New Leader
The University Methodist Church announced yesterday the appointment of Reverend Travis Kendall as its new minister.
In his first pastoral position, the Rev. Mr. Kendall is planning a program to attract both students and graduates of the university. He hopes to build his congregation into a group sup ported by the laity.
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WELCOME hOME USC student David Sargeant should be able to find Brazil on the map after he spent a year there as an exchange student. Sargeant has just returned from the South American country, where he and 13 other college students attended university classes, lectured and spent time in the homes of Brazilian families.
J By ARLINE KAPLAN
Seasoned traveler David Sargeant has recently returned to USC from a year’s stay in Brazil.
As a participant in a unique exchange program, Sargeant and 13 other college students representing various areas of the j U.S.. received a semester of in-I tensive education at the Uiriver-I sity of Bahia.
The program, a cooperative ef-' fort, was initiated by the Uni-I versity of New York and the University of Bahia. The Ameri-| can university pays the round-trip plane fare, while the Brazilian university provides tuition ! and housing.
I Students are eligible to apply ; for the program during their ! sophomore year. They must i demonstrate a willingness to j learn and the ability to adapt to diverse environments.
In June, Sargeant and the i other students met in Washington. DC. Here they received a briefing by State Department officials on customs, etiquette and other pertinent iiTfomia-tion.
When they arrived in Bahia the students immediately began a concentrated, six-week course ; in Portuguese. After completion ' of the course, they enrolled in | a special cultural program which included geology, history. Portuguese and Brazilian literature and sociology, all taught in Portuguese.
The American students were (Continued or* Page £)